Lanyon Quoit
Dolmen
England
region: Cornwall
Grid Ref: SW430337, Latitude: 50.146942, Longitude: -5.597767
This site is on the map OS Landranger sheet 203, Land's End.. which you can buy from Amazon.co.uk
Lanyon Quoit makes a fine, dramatic photograph and features in
many of the tourist publications for the West Penwith area of Cornwall. However, though the
site and stones are for real, it isn't an authentic image of
prehistory. The original collapsed (26) in a storm in 1815, breaking some stones.
The capstone was re-erected on three stones where there were
probably more supports originally, and the axis of the monument
was turned through 90 degrees.
Other sites nearby -
Men An Tol, Standing Stones, 1.3km
Nine Maidens, Stone Circle, 1.5km, SW436351
Boskednan , Stone Circle, 1.5km, SW436351
Barrow, Barrow, 1.6km, SW432353
Chun Quoit, Dolmen, 2.8km
Treen Common , Stone Circle, 3.2km, SW444366
Kenidjack Common , Stone Row/Alignment, 4.3km, SW389325
Tregeseal, Stone Circle, 4.5km
Drift Stones, Standing Stones, 5.4km
Treveglos, Zennor , Stone Row/Alignment, 5.6km, SW453388
Zennor Quoit, Dolmen, 5.8km
Boscawen-Un, Stone Circle, 6.6km
Trelew, Standing Stone, 6.8km
Pipers, Standing Stones, 8.9km
Gun Rith, Standing Stone, 9.2km
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Last updated 17 Oct 2000